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David Southwell writes:

>  Before I do so let me step outsiide the freebsd environment and
>  ask what our comments would be if MS$ were to announce that they
>  were about to release an upgrade to their operating system and
>  until the new upgrade had been released upgrades to existing
>  applications would be barred.

	We don't know such delays /don't/ happen; all we know is they
aren't announced.


					Robert Huff